Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 20090227 | Ian McMillan introduces the first in a series of three new short drama commissions, created by writers attending a workshop at the BBC writersroom, a scheme that seeks out and encourages new British writing talent in film, television and radio. The project is part of the writersroom's Sparks programme, where writers attend a workshop and collaborate in small groups in creating short dramas especially for radio. The three best entries are then chosen to feature on The Verb. Ian McMillan presents a new drama written specially for The Verb, from BBC writersroom. Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance | |
| 02 | 20090306 | Ian McMillan introduces the second in a series of three new short drama commissions, created by writers attending a workshop at the BBC writersroom, a scheme that seeks out and encourages new British writing talent in film, television and radio. The project is part of the writersroom's Sparks programme, where writers attend a workshop and collaborate in small groups in creating short dramas especially for radio. The three best entries are then chosen to feature on The Verb. Ian McMillan presents a new drama written specially for The Verb, from BBC writersroom. Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance | |
| 03 | Neil Labute | 20090313 | Ian McMillan is joined by celebrated, and often controversial, American dramatist Neil LaBute, writer-director of In The Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbours and The Shape of Things. Neil reads a new monologue, I Love This Game, about an obsessed baseball fan whose passion for his favourite sport brings unexpected - and unpleasant - consequences for him and his family. Plus writer, performer and verbal virtuoso Inua Ellams, who presents extracts from The 14th Tale, his one-man show about a mischievous boy growing up in Nigeria, Dublin and London. Ian also introduces the last in a series of three new short drama commissions, created by writers attending a workshop at the BBC writersroom, a scheme that seeks out and encourages new British writing talent in film, television and radio. The project is part of the writersroom's Sparks programme, where writers attend a workshop and collaborate in small groups in creating short dramas especially for radio. The three best entries are then chosen to feature on The Verb. Ian McMillan talks to Neil LaBute about his monologue, entitled I Love This Game. Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance |